In the end of the 19th century, the grandson of the well-known Ukrainian entrepreneur Fedir Semerenko, Levko, had been through imprisonment and tortures in Siberia. There, he married Aldona Hruzhevska, the revolutionary of Polish origin. When he was released, he came back to Ukraine and established a large fruit tree nursery in his family estate that became well-known in Europe. Levko Platonovych was called a king of gardening. It was he who developed the variety of apple called “Reinette Symyrenko” that is known to everybody today. Find out about how Levko Semerenko went from being a revolutionary to a scientist, how he and his wife Aldona went their separate ways, and how he was killed by the NKVD in 1918, in the third part of the film, “Levko” in the documentary series “The Game of Fate” by VIATEL Studio narrated by Natalka Sopit.
- Script by Halyna Kryvorchuk, Jurii Kryvorchuk
- Narrations Natali Sopit, Taras Denysenko
- Directed by Vasyl Viter
- Director of photography Georgij Kryvoshejenko
- Sound Oleg Golovoshkin, Kateryna Kel
- Editor Oleg Tudoran
- Make up Olga Bondarenko
- Costume LAURA ASHLEY ™
- Music De Wolfe Music
- Camera Oleksandr Demydenko
- Executive producer Halyna Kryvorchuk
- Producer Vasyl Viter
The shooting took place at:
– at the L.P. Symyrenko Institute of Pomology of the Academy of Agrarian Sciences
– at the Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Arts
– at the Museum of House by Mykhajlo Starytsky
We used:
– the photo documents of the National Memorial Museum of the Symyrenko Family
– the materials of the “Rodovid” (editor’s comment: The Family Tree) periodical No.10
– the H.S. Pshenychnyi Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine documents
– the fragments of films “Without a Dowry”, “Among The People”, “Childhood”, “My Universities”, “Living Corpse”, “Dubrovskyi”
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